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Researchers from the Department of Physics, together with a team formed by several European universities, carry out the first theoretical study of a Bose-Einstein condensate of a system of polar molecules

Professor Ricard González-Cinca, head of the Space Exploration Laboratory, linked to the group BIOCOM-SC at the Physics department, is participating in this pioneering experiment for the management of cryogenic fuels in space

Gerard Pascual López defended his thesis supervised by Jordi Boronat Medico on April 24, 2025, at the Campus Nord. Titled “Quantum Monte Carlo studies of impurities in Bose gases at finite temperature and in the Fermi-Hubbard model”, the thesis focuses on investigating the behavior of impurities in environments governed by many-body quantum phenomena

Carles Rubio Maturana defended on June 3, his doctoral thesis on the diagnosis of malaria and urogenital schistosomiasis using artificial intelligence tools and a low-cost robotic microscope in the Doctoral Program in Microbiology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona under the direction of doctors Joan Joseph Munné and Elisa Sayrol Clols. The thesis is part of a project funded by the World Health Organization and directed by professor Daniel Lopez Codina from the Department of Physics at the UPC.

Final degree and master's theses win the main prizes in this year's edition of the Sant Jordi Awards 2025 call

Physics plays a foundational role in engineering education, providing the essential principles that underpin nearly all areas of engineering practice—from mechanics and thermodynamics to electromagnetism and modern materials science. Teaching physics effectively within engineering degrees is crucial for developing students' problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and deep conceptual understanding necessary for innovative and practical engineering solutions

Alejandro Salvatori defended his thesis co-directed by Michela Romanini and Pol Lloveras, on July 1, 2025 at the Besòs Campus. Entitled "Barocal effects in organic and ferroelectric plastic crystals", the thesis investigates the caloric effects induced by hydrostatic pressure through first-order phase transitions in molecular crystals that present orientational disordered phases, called plastic crystals. These effects promise more efficient and sustainable refrigeration technologies than current gas compressors, and also thermal batteries. The materials studied are of two types: organic plastic crystals, which present giant latent heats, and ferroelectric plastic crystals, novel compounds that present multiaxial ferroelectricity, orientable with an electric field

A methodology to quantify multidimensional ideological polarization has been proposed by researchers of the department of Physics.

Course about safety of hydrogen storage tanks for automobile and aerospace industries within the Unite! Alliance

Aida Perramon Malavez defended her thesis co-directed by Clara Prats Soler and Antoni Soriano Arandes on July 16, 2025 at the Baix Llobregat Campus. Titled "Respiratory viruses in childhood: surveillance, analysis, and modelling of their epidemiological dynamics. The case of Catalonia.", the thesis presents the history and evolution of the main respiratory infections in Catalan childhood, from a perspective of dynamic analysis of complex systems and providing tools for monitoring, understanding and predicting these epidemics in Catalonia.